It was the Fourth of July weekend in Little Rock, and Rock was in War Memorial Park to cover the Firecracker Fast 5K and the 4th of July Classic (a men's golf tournament featuring Arkansas's best amateurs). They were by far the most significant sporting events in Arkansas that weekend and right up Rock's journalistic alley, but there were oddities about both that he was unsure how to handle.
In the 5K, a very overweight friend of Rock's named Chuck Drury ran anchor on the winning four-man relay team. This was a result that demanded investigation. Rock had known Chuck for years and knew there was no way his slowness could be overcome by three other runners, regardless of how fast they were.
As for the golf tournament, four men had won a team competition of some sort, but Rock knew one of the men and had seen him and his teammates drinking heavily in the clubhouse. He was fairly certain they had never been on the course.
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